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The Michelle Yeoh Star Trek TV Movie Just Doesn’t Have the Juice
It’s almost cruel to compare Star Trek: Section 31 to the series Deep Space Nine, which created its core concept.
When a powerful operative named Sloan (William Sadler, absolutely bodying the role) tried to recruit DS9’s lead medical officer, Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig), he refused based on his disgust for Section 31’s cruelty and lack of accountability. Section 31 ’searliest scenes are leaden flashbacks to the pivotal moment in which a young Georgiou (Miku Martineau) completes the final task in order to rise from lowly commoner forced into battle-royal brutality to emperor: killing her mother, father, and adolescent younger brother. She traipses through, correctly identifying each spy in her bar by way of introducing the supporting cast: Melle (Humberly González), a slinky Deltan who has the ability to seduce almost every species, no matter their own desires; Zeph (Robert Kazinsky), a brash human who lives in a souped-up mechanical exoskeleton whose strength doesn’t improve his rocks for brains; Fuzz (Sven Ruygrok), a microscopic, octopuslike creature who lives in and controls a robot body meant to resemble a male Vulcan, despite constantly showing emotions and speaking in an Irish accent that would probably nullify his espionage efforts; Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl), a character introduced in The Next Generation ’s episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” as the captain of an alternate version of the Enterprise who here says things like “Chaos is my friends with benefits” with zero flair; and Quasi, the character most successfully brought to life (played by Sam Richardson, who rightly calibrates his humor), a shape-shifting Chameloid with a penchant for overthinking.
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